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Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Rose Hathaway and her best friend Lissa have been hiding from
their old school St Vladimir’s for the last two years but now they have finally
been caught. However, St Vladimir’s is not an ordinary school, it is a school
for Moroi, living vampires and Dhampir, half humans, half vampire whose job it
is to protect the Moroi from the undead and evil vampires Strigoi. With Lissa
being the last of her royal family and the bond between the two of them since
they both survived the car accident that killed Lissa’s family, all Rose wants
to do is to protect Lissa as her guardian, but to do this she must stay out of
trouble. That might be tricky with Rose falling for a forbidden guy, vicious rumours
about both Lissa and Rose, Lissa’s going down a deep road of depression and
someone knowing their secret, will they be able to survive school.

Vampire Academy is a brilliant book which has politics,
action, danger, romance and a kick-ass heroine who you can help but love. I
like the different versions of vampires and the background we learn about them.

I love Rose as she is the type of person I wish she could
be as she is caring, protective, confident and willing to fight for what she
believes in. I also like Lissa as I felt I could connect with her really well
and I liked how the friendship between both of them was portrayed. I liked all
of the characters in this book as they are all unique and I can’t describe them
all, but I have to say I love Dimitri as he is my favourite male hero as he is
strong, calm and caring. I like the bad person in this book as I did not
predict who it was or what was going to happen next.

I love Vampire Academy and cannot recommend this series
highly enough to anyone who likes paranormal or just great books.

Sunday, 18 August 2013

Barbed roots are breaking through from the land of Brume,
and terror strikes the kingdom of Nemetona. When Lia’s father is poisoned Lia,
her grandfather, her cousin Wynn and his best friend Kelven, travel to the
forbidden land of Brume to use Lia’s herbal knowledge to find a cure. The further
Lia travels into Brume the more she grows in tune with the land and with many
ingredients to find and a powerful enemy to defeat, is Lia able to create the
cure in time.

Arrow of the Mist is a nice light fantasy book which a
good adventure for children and older. However, I felt the book went into too
much depth with certain subjects while barely mentioning other important stuff,
this means that the book did not flow easily.

I liked Lia, but I felt she and the other characters did
not grow in the book, even when she discovers new things about herself, she does
not change. Also the romance was a bit bland as it was wrapped up with in the
first half of the book and then was not really mentioned again; therefore we
did not see the romance expand. I however, liked seeing the different mystical
creatures and how this book remained me of classic fantasy novels.

Arrow of the Mist is a nice light read and I would
recommend to fans of classic fantasy books for children or YA.

Saturday, 3 August 2013

Artemis’s life is changed forever when she meets the man
she has been dreaming about, Ares, who claims she is a werewolf and is also his
mate. With the humans being killed, will Artemis be able to accept herself, her
mate and her destiny? I read Song of the Moon because I really liked Banks book,
Mercenary, but unfortunately I just found this book OK as I could not connect to
the characters. I especially did not like how the main characters are either part
of, or OK with killing or enslaving humans, and as a human myself I am against
this.